The Saturday Night Olympics

It was March 13th, 2006, i.e. four years ago this past Saturday, when I published my first post for this site. This time each year I like to congratulate myself for having the wherewithal and the unique misfortune to stick it out this long, by putting together a list of some of my better posts from the past year. This year, since everyone who started here was already gone at this point last year, and also due to laziness, I’ll spare you the self-congratulating other than to point out that I checked just now, and according to my calculations, this is my 928th post for this site. And that’s not even counting the ones that disappeared due to this site’s infamous software glitch. Assuming each post was in the 800-word range, which they were, except for the ones that were way longer, that’s over 720,000 words. Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ! To think, how much money I would have made, if I’d been paid a decent rate to write that much. I wouldn’t have to live in this shanty town. I’ll just have to take as consolation the fact that I got paid anything at all to spend so much time talking about pr0n.

(In rough chronological order, rather than going through the hassle of trying to rank them, which would be pointless anyway, because they’re all so good.)

1) Select crab meats – I spent an entire afternoon listening to Rawse’s Deeper Than Rap, just to pick out the five most ridonkulous lines, a solid 40% of which have to do with seafood.

2) Best cans I ever saw – I’m not gonna lie – I watched that Drake video at least once a day for weeks and weeks after it hit the Internets.

3) Al Qaeda is the new Koch – When Homeland Security finally uncovers the trend of rappers converting to terrorism-Islam, as part of Al Qaeda’s continuing efforts to recruit in the black community, don’t forget where you heard it first.

4) The real reason Oprah loves Jay-Z – When you spend a lot of time around crack, it seeps into your pores. That’s one of the reasons crackheads are always offering to suck drug dealers’ dicks.

5) Favor for a favor – Ozone magazine allegedly has a head for interviews policy, for rappers who are famous enough. My goal in life is to take advantage of this policy.

14) How I know the Clipse really are drug dealers – I wasn’t buying for a minute that video where Malice makes himself a delicious stack of pancakes. He probably pays strippers to make him pancakes, with all that money he makes from drug dealing.

16) Atheist state of mind – This one was published before Jay-Z went on Vlad TV and assured people who can’t breathe through their noses that he does believe in god, but everything it says is still true, if not even more so.

17) Desperate much, black women? – The real reason black women got all butthurt about Reggie Bush being on the cover of Essence magazine, despite the fact that Kim Kardashian is an honorary black woman, as evidenced by the time she was on the cover of the late, great King magazine.

18) Never trust a man in retro tennis shoes – This post is like No Logo for people who are too intimidated by books to read Dr. Seuss, let alone Naomi Klein. I might print up copies and hand them out at ghetto middle schools.

19) Fuck you, I won’t tidy my bedroom – Every now and again I’ll do a post on Rage Against the Machine, in hopes that some dumb kid will pick up their self-titled debut and have his whole perspective on shit changed. Black kids are listening to rock these days, right?

20) Tainted love – I should have known people wouldn’t give a shit about the fact that some of these hip-hop blogs are accepting payola. One douche even admitted in the comments section that he also accepts payola. Maybe he was advertising.

21) Text Yele to 501501 to buy Wyclef a new Bentley – As far as I’m concerned, the best journalism to come out of that earthquake in Haiti, even more so than that time Anderson Cooper saved that kid who had already been hit in the head by a brick. I really dug deep on this one.

22) Translating Jesse Stu – A little fun at the expense of some poor douche who was trying to advertise his services as an online ghostwriter: you send him some money via PayPal, and he’ll write you a verse.

23) Five reasons Jay-Z is a member of the Illuminati – One of the girls from the Office blog tried to claim Jay-Z isn’t a member of the Illuminati. Normally, I’d respond with something sexually inappropriate, but this time I took it as an opportunity to educate.

24) The MP3 Blogocaust – Almost as tragic to me, on a personal level, as the real Holocaust. No Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. Google just up and deleted several music blogs from the Internets, without warning, just because they were offering illegal downloads. I thought this was America?

25) We did it again, Brooklyn – My post from the other day about the groundbreaking for the Atlantic Yards project. People seemed to appreciate my insight on the sexual politics of slavery, which I’ll admit mostly comes from my vivid imagination.

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Legend, although it would of been better for Bol to have given us a comprehensive of the posts that didn’t make it coz of the… ‘glitches’…

jim

its been a good year Bol

Sha

Curious as to how your Guru blog disappeared. But I’m happy it did. Guru deserved better. Get a like dude. You’re the biggest hater since Starr & Buck. Jerk!

Big John

Pop it back in daddy! POP IT BACK IN!!!!!!!!!!!

these posts are racist

What up Hater? My freestyles are better than 99 percent of the stuff popping in the Banger Section each day…and my thoughts/insights are 100 times better than anything you’ve ever written…Free Palestine, and keep it real homey.

Dough

Free Palenstine!?! WTF man fuck Palenstine!! Free Israel!!

Worley

As the banner says on a certain blogger’s website: “Boycott Israel.”

Congratulations on your four years. It has been one laugh after the other like this: “How the former first lady of Turks and Caicos tried to become the secretary of the National Action Network.”

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Dough,

Free Israel? From what? Israel occupies Palestine and denies Christian and Muslim Palestinians equal rights under the law simply because they are not Jewish…Get your facts straight.

Worely,

For the last time: Byron Crawford and I are two different people.

valdez

@tpar…

maybe he means free the NATION of israel, which is to say the seed of Jacob. in which case, he’d be correct in saying free the black man in america. but of course we know esau will never do that. hey, isn’t that the real reason jfk was assassinated?? hmmmmm.

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Valdez,

Really? He made the comment right after making a comment about Palestinians…

Tiiz

lol @ Rick Ross’ epic seafood dedication album.

http://www.bboycult.com Don ‘$yk’ McCaine

Congrats.

But like the homie said above, we want to peep the blogs that DIDN’T make it.

Treat yo’self to some Yellow Tail (which ever way you prefer that).

BIGNAT

you are right don WE WANT THE SHIT “THEY” WOULDN’T LET THE PUBLIC SEE. put them up on your own site just post a link here

http://xxl All Dae

I just skimed it and #1 and #4 are classic reads. Crab meats became internet slang for a minute.

I can wait to get my lol on….Thank you Bol for being gully(yes Bol) enough to put up the real.

El Tico Loco

My bad, I saw the title and thought you was gonna go in on the fact that the olympic committee is considering making pole dancing an olympic event.

http://xxl All Dae

*can’t

http://xxl All Dae

it’s a trip to see what everyone wrote before in the comments. What happend to Matt Herbz and GUNOT Killa?

cmoney91

Congrats Bol,keep it up

DV8

my favorite one is the Lisa Raye joint. It had me laughing at things I should have not been laughing at.

caino

4 yrs ..damn dawg!! hey wait a minute we shouldnt be reading into this , in that you are leaving soon?

ps Bol has been on fire lately!! Yeah post alink of the posts that didnt make it, or release them in a book or sumting !! (no crab meat)

geico lizard

Congratulations on the years, Bol. A fan who is much better with computers than I am should start a page with those computer glitch posts we never got to read.

http://www.emcdl.com EmCDL

Congrats Bol. May you and your white woman fetish go unscathed in the land of blogging for years to come…

And the guys are right, where are those ‘glitch’ blog posts? Should have posted them up on your site…

latino heat

congratulations Bol. you started writing for this site a couple months before i became a daily reader. i don’t know what this site would be like without you. dead probably.

you are the last of a dead breed, Bol. farewell to Siccamore, DJ Drama, Dallas, etc. long live the king of XXL.com.

i do remember a blog you did about Joe Budden last year that was hilarious. i’m sad i didn’t make the top 25. if anybody can remember the name of that one please post a link. and if you ever do drop that Too Hot For XXL.com book i would buy a copy too.

#1 and #4 were the best drops. the one drop Dallas Penn had one about what lil wanyes conversation in class with lil mama would be like then it explained why wayne’s dredlocks are stupid. that post> any post i ever read on here ever.